"When the clock strikes midnight and the seventh son is born, black blood flows in the residential building - this is not a curse, but a 'blessing' for the old Chen family."
Chen Fan never thought that his parents' obsession with "more children, more happiness" would become the code of survival in a world of rules and ghost stories. Eight billion people around the world are involved in the "Reality Suture" game. When others crack a single rule, he takes his six younger siblings to unlock the "family bond": the eldest sister's mind-reading ability sees through the loopholes in the rules, the twin brother's mirror image physique replicates the ghostly form, and the seventh sister's cry stops the flow of time.
This Chinese family has hidden secrets for three thousand years: from Nuwa's taboo experiments in creating human beings, to Qin Shihuang's quest for immortal boys and girls, to the metaphor of modern fertility anxiety, what flows in the Chen family's blood is not DNA, but the backdoor program of the "rule administrator". When others struggle with "don't look back" and "must smile", they play the "Survival Manual" as a "family development system": "raising children to prevent old age" breaks the weird rumors of nursing homes, "there is strength in numbers" and just the midnight bus rules, and "fighting in a multi-style team" to fight against the Whisper of Cthulhu.
But after awakening his super powers, Chen Fan discovered that "many children, many blessings" was the bait, and his super powers were cultivated by the "container". When the seventh brother grows inhuman pupils, a strange smiling face appears in the family photo, and the survival game reveals its true face - not just surviving, but becoming "the rules themselves".
"The most dangerous thing is not the ghosts, but the 'it's all for your own good' when family ties go bad." Looking at the 99+ family group messages on his phone, Chen Fan couldn't tell whether the strange instructions came from the system or from his mother's WeChat message urging her to get married.
(Integration: strange ethics, Cthulhu system, social memes, policy metaphors, multi-threaded narrative)
